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This is my first time delving into the world of Jack Reacher beyond the lackluster movie. I was prepared, based on reviews, to be wowed by Mr. Child's one-man-against-all-odds novel. Unfortunately it was more "meh" than "wow". While the story itself was interesting, with a unique take on a global counterfeiting ring and one man's quest to avenge a brother who strayed too close, the writing itself got to be downright painful. There are just some things I found in this novel that you should never, ever, read from a talented author:

"It was as distinctive as the most distinctive thing you could ever think of" -literally made me cringe
"We high-fived, whooped and hollered" - Once is bad enough, but when this is used 4 and 5 times, with "high-ten" as the only variation, it leaves me scanning pages trying to skip beyond the sophomoric attempt at a written bromance and get back into the actual story.

My hope is, with this being an early novel, the writer has matured through subsequent releases. I will be moving on to the next novel still hoping for a "WOW" moment; let's hope it comes with fewer cringe-worthy passages.


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Killing Floor Jack Reacher No 1 Lee Child 9780515141429 Books Reviews

Coming back to this novel after all these years is illuminating. The adventure/thriller genre has changed a bit, but Jack Reacher is still there on the top of the heap. What I have always enjoyed is the classic PI independent vibe, with a dash of military "breaking things and killing people." I started re-reading these novels after breaking my long standing policy of not watching movies based on novels I like. I got what I expected. Tom, your Jack Reacher is not bad for a movie character, but not big enough or tough enough to match the character as written. My advice to those who loved the movie "Jack Reacher" should go back to the source and meet the "real" lonesome Jack. Only trouble for me is now he looks like Tom Cruise instead of Fred Dryer. I guess I can get used to that.
Great read! I started reading Jack Reacher after someone passed me one of the books. I was hooked since and I've read four before deciding to go back to the beginning. The Killing Floor is a great start. We don't get too much background about Reacher but his character is enough to make you want to get to know the man behind the muscle. I really love that he narrates his own story. I can't move away from Lee Child. I keep trying but no book can keep me from Jack Reacher! If you like hard action, thriller, detective type reads then this is for you. You won't be disappointed! And please don't think of Tom Cruise when deciding on these books. He looks nothing like Jack Reacher.
I love the Jack Reacher series, but the first one is kind of.... poorly written. The chief reason I wrote so is his first book is crammed full of sentence fragments, to such an extent the writer's meaning gets lost and what he tried to say becomes, in many scores of places, incomprehensible. There are so many bad sentences, lacking subject or verb, and even lacking subject and verb, that entire paragraphs are rendered gibberish. Some sentence fragments end up as dangling participles, and the result is some times amusing.

Other than the garbage (and I apologize, but I cannot think of a more valid word) due to a seemingly endless number of non-sentences, the book is of course excellent; and the writer improved greatly in later books in the series. I have purchased every one of the Jack Reacher novels, and I have loved the character for over a decade.

If people new to Jack Reacher only read this book, I hope they do not conclude all of the books are as poor. As the writer Stephen King also pointed out in his book "On Writing," Lee Child's splatter and spewing of sentence fragments is excessive and annoying in this novel, but not as bad in the others.
Considering that it’s been 20 years since Lee Child’s first Jack Reacher novel, “Killing Floor” was published I acknowledge I’m late to the party with this review. I’ve avoided this genre for years as there are a dozen guys out there writing this type of fiction. They all seem cut from the same cloth; a former military Spec Ops guy who suffers personal loss and is damaged drops off the grid and drifts around getting embroiled in various subterfuge. He’s big, bad, a master of ‘special skills’, and is just one rung down from having lineage traceable to the planet Krypton. They all seem the same and the stories contrived so they failed to appeal to me.
Well, guess I’ve been wrong because “Killing Floor” grabbed me from the first page. Ex-Army Military Policeman Jack Reacher is 6 foot 6 inches of bad mamma-jama and yes he’s damaged goods, wandering through Georgia when he’s arrested in a diner for a murder which he’s not committed. The story rockets along at a blistering pace with plenty of action, twists and turns, and excitement for 529 pages. I’ve already bought the next two in the 21 (and counting) book series.
In the forward to this paperback edition Child tells the readers his objective when creating the Reacher character was to have someone who was pretty much indestructible- a guy who does not lose and vanquishes every bad guy he meets. He wanted someone different from the flawed and vulnerable heroes in other books and find themselves in mortal jeopardy at every turn and in Jack Reacher he succeeds. Knowing the hero isn’t going to fail does not lessen the suspense and it’s fun watching how Reacher takes down the scum. It’s kind of like satisfaction you get watching a Jason Bourne movie.
This is my first time delving into the world of Jack Reacher beyond the lackluster movie. I was prepared, based on reviews, to be wowed by Mr. Child's one-man-against-all-odds novel. Unfortunately it was more "meh" than "wow". While the story itself was interesting, with a unique take on a global counterfeiting ring and one man's quest to avenge a brother who strayed too close, the writing itself got to be downright painful. There are just some things I found in this novel that you should never, ever, read from a talented author

"It was as distinctive as the most distinctive thing you could ever think of" -literally made me cringe
"We high-fived, whooped and hollered" - Once is bad enough, but when this is used 4 and 5 times, with "high-ten" as the only variation, it leaves me scanning pages trying to skip beyond the sophomoric attempt at a written bromance and get back into the actual story.

My hope is, with this being an early novel, the writer has matured through subsequent releases. I will be moving on to the next novel still hoping for a "WOW" moment; let's hope it comes with fewer cringe-worthy passages.